Flash Meridian is my ideal self. He has unlimited resources. He is patient, inquisitive and content.

No matter what conflict he faces, I am able to keep him safe through a simple choice of words.

He doesn’t see me in my world the way I see him in his. He doesn’t know that I am giving him challenges and solutions. He thinks he is facing aliens, machines and boredom on his own.

He doesn’t understand that the universe he inhabits is all in my mind.

It makes me wonder whose mind I’m traveling through.